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New Delhi: From drinking water supply to providing 4G network connectivity, the central government is all set to launch its Rs 15,000-crore mission to provide basic infrastructure to an estimated 28 lakh vulnerable tribal population in 18 states and Union territories including poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan ThePrint has learnt...
The Union ministry of tribal affairs is in the process of sending a proposal for the Pradhan Mantri Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Groups Mission to the Union Cabinet for approval, two senior tribal affairs ministry officials aware of the development told ThePrint...
Announced by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in the budget this year, the mission aims at providing particularly vulnerable tribal groups (PVTGs) basic facilities.The ministry has identified 11 interventions, such as providing housing, healthcare facilities, water supply, road connectivity, 4G and mobile network, electrification of houses, education, anganwadi centres, multipurpose facility centres, livelihood options and focused development of 60 aspirational PVTG blocks (out of 500 Aspirational Blocks Programme) in PVTG villages or habitations in the country, according to ministry officials...
Since PVTG population in most habitations is under 100, the ministry is planning to set up hostels near existing residential schools for children, deploy 10 mobile medical vans in each village or habitation, open multi-purpose centres where anganwadi centres are not feasible and provide a common drinking water tap or a well where piped water line is not possible, the officials said.. Dedicated mobile app to map PVTG villages ..
The tribal affairs ministry is getting social and other infrastructure in tribal areas mapped through the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan platform, officials said.. Launched in October 2021, the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan (PMGS-NMP) is a digital platform to bring 16 ministries including the Indian Railways and Highways for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects, the central government says on its portal India.gov.in...
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